That Thankful Time of Year

We hope you all have a Happy Thanksgiving and enjoy the memories. This time of year is always a welcome start to taking the time to give thanks and appreciate all the blessings in our lives. Family and friends gather and share not just a meal together, but love and appreciation. Have a wonderful day and may we never take for granted what we are thankful for.

Happy Birthday Mark!

On Tuesday Mark celebrated his birthday! The kids and I surprised him with his favorite cake-Burnt Caramel Cake originating to his wonderful grandmother Gammy. Needless to say we've been enjoying it this week:

A version of the infamous cake pan that the cake goes in...

Other than that we've had a pretty low key week. Caleb was off of school for Thursday/Friday. Katelynn has really been enjoying having her brother at home to play with. We celebrated with Mark's family last night and enjoyed spending time with family!

Hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend!!

Happy Haunting Halloween!!

It's that time of year again, when we get to have a little fun with our imaginations and "dress up" for Halloween and Trick or Treating. Only with Caleb and Katelynn it isn't exactly using anything out of the ordinary...we've been training for this all year!!

Introducing Supergirl and Jango Fett...

In outer space...

Mark and I with the kids at Night of the Living Zoo...

We hope everyone has a safe and fun Halloween!!

The girl is 3!

Our little "big" girl has turned the big 3!! :) We had a fun birthday party at our house this past weekend to help celebrate! Katelynn had such a fun time :) Thank you to everyone who came!

Katelynn opening up her "rice box" on her Birthday...

We have also been in full-swing "fall" mode and Caleb has been playing really good with flag football! He's awesome on defense!! Thank you to everyone who has come out to support him and watch him play!

Caleb had his first football game this weekend (video will be coming soon). He really enjoyed it and did really well! We had a lot of fun watching and Uncle David, Aunt Kathy, Claire and Haley came to support Caleb.


Katelynn had her first dance lesson this week and she absolutely loved it! She's taking the class at the local Y and we were very impressed with the dance instructor there. It should be a fun experience for her!


I'll keep this post short but will conlcude with a few fun phrases from the kids:

Katelynn: "Mommy I'm not a scardy cat.......I'm a scardy puppy!"

Caleb: "Mom you are so sweet. I'm saying nice things about you-today's your lucky day!"

Katelynn: "I have sleepy eyes."
Mom: "Do you need to go back to sleep?"
Katelynn: "No, eyes just sleepy"